American Hikers Detained In Iran Officially Identified
Officials from the autonomous Kurdish province in northern Iraq officially identified the three Americans detained by Iranian border patrol officers last week after...
U.S. Postal Service May Close Offices
According to an August 3 AP story, the U.S. Postal Service is considering closing offices and consolidating services throughout the nation. ...
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Stimulus Scam Redux?
Item: President Barack Obama, reported the Bloomberg news agency for July 11, “said his $787 billion stimulus bill ‘has worked as intended’ as...
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U.S. Incomes Fall 1.3 % in June
According to the latest figures from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Americans’ personal incomes dropped 1.3 percent in June, the biggest drop in...
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Cash for Clunkers Is a Failure
In a development policymakers cite as a huge win for intervention in the marketplace, last week the federal government nearly suspended the Car...
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Iran Detains Three American Tourists
At least two Iranian state-run TV stations — Press TV and al Alam — reported on August 1 that the nation's border police...
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States Impose Hefty Fines to Protect Delicate Coral
As any good diver or snorkeler knows, there is nothing so breathtaking or so delicate as coral reef. Coral is so delicate, in...
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Skype Signing Off?
They say that all good things must come to an end. The truth of this maxim might be proven very soon in the...
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Woman Murdered, Baby Cut from Womb
It's hard to imagine anything more evil: a woman kills a friend so that she can steal her unborn baby by ripping it...
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Terrorist Targeting of Police
To the headlines listed below could be added hundreds more cataloging the concerted global attack by terrorist organizations against law enforcement. ...
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“Stimulus” Money Goes to Pornography, Nude Shows
The U.S. government will run about $2 trillion in the red this year, but the record budget deficit hasn’t stopped the American Recovery...
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Was ‘Big Papi’ Juiced?
The baseball world has been abuzz the past few days over the allegation from anonymous sources that both Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz...
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Ted Kennedy Receives U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom
President Obama selected Massachusetts senior Senator Ted Kennedy to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom July 30, supposedly the highest civilian honor the...
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Rather Wants Obama to Save the News Business
Will a "media czar" be next? At a time when the federal government has already taken over much of the country's financial industry,...
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Apple Says Hacked iPhones Are Dangerous
Wired reported on July 28 that the Electronic Frontier Foundation is asking the U.S. Copyright Office to legalize the practice of hacking Apple’s...
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